As the Trump administration moves to disband USAID, the scope of university research it has historically supported needs to ...

Smart scientists sign up to study the natural world and end up professional fundraisers for higher-education. To call it a ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute abruptly ended a $60 million program to improve the retention of diverse college students ...

In an email sent Monday to faculty and students across campus, a Washington University official described studies that had ...

Universities will still be allowed to offer the diversity-related courses, but students cannot be required to take them.

Faculty Senate members criticized a presentation on AI’s role in academia, while University leaders advised faculty to ...

The Trump administration has halted funding for a $5-billion program that Congress created to help states build out their ...

According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, USAID funded programs in 130 countries in 2023. Now, nearly all such projects are on hold – with most employees stationed overseas told to ...

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) dropped the Stop Funding Our Adversaries Act in an attempt to permanently shut out federal research funding to Chinese entities. “Our nation’s foreign adversaries do not ...

The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.

Pennsylvania’s universities - Pitt, UPenn and Penn State in particular - have big reputations, and to back them up, they ...